GRIPES

[old man emu]

8 minutes ago, robinsm said:

sell it to a private operator and then you will get nothing.

 

It is doubtful that the aerodrome has any greater value than as 200 acres of unimproved pasture, or maybe 200 acres of canola. What the Association is trying to do is increase its use by locals and tourists as an aerodrome so that its heritage value can be preserved.

[willedoo]

21 hours ago, old man emu said:

Think of the people of your age who in their younger days bought 5 acres on the then outer fringes of Sydney. Maybe the had a market garden business. Now they are too old to work, and just remain living on that 5 acre block, geeting the pension that their years of toil earned the right to. Their little old home has become un-fringed and is now worth over $1M per acre. It forces them to leave what they spent years building, and all the memories of family life. 

Not sure I fully understand that one, ome. Do you mean they are forced to sell up because the council rates have become unaffordable due to their land valuation?

[Yenn]

They don't have enough income to live on but they have a million dollars worth of land and cannot get the pension.

[willedoo]

2 hours ago, Yenn said:

They don't have enough income to live on but they have a million dollars worth of land and cannot get the pension.

That's only if you have acreage exceeding the five acre limit. You can have a house and up to two hectares of land worth 100 million dollars and still get a full pension, as long as the non residence assets don't exceed the limit. Anyone with less than two hectares is exempted that house and land from the assets test as long as it's the primary residence and not used to run a business. If your land exceeds the two hectare limit, you are still exempt the house and two hectares, but the balance exceeding two hectares is classed as an asset.

[Marty_d]

I'm sorry, but I feel a bit more sorry for those pensioners who don't own their own home, sometimes through simple bad luck/timing, or a late marriage breakdown, or lack of superannuation because they spent a lot of years out of the workforce raising kids - than I do for someone whose property increased so much in value that they can either sell it for millions, or get a reverse mortgage that will allow them to live comfortably for the rest of their life.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Exactly right Marty. The aged pension is to stop you from going hungry, not to allow you to make your kids millionaires after you die.

Edited September 27, 2022 by Bruce Tuncks

[spacesailor]

I remember one older widow. 

Lived at 'lake maquarrie ' . Their small holding was rated by council to forcre her to sell enough land per year for those council rates.

When it was put out on the media , two councilors quickly resigned .

Something to do with the developer conecttions. 

We have a similar problem with Parramatta letting our ' Low density housing  ' get pushed up to

' medium density mixed ' .

Now the fight to stop 'Tucks road ' flats delelopment. 

Big block of flats with ' on street ' parking is certainly Not medium density housing.. 

spacesailor

[old man emu]

Don't know if this is the correct place for this, or maybe it should be in the religions, I'm thinking of converting to one of those religions that believes in reincarnation. 

 

I've been mowing my grass this morning and the flies have been really annoying. So when I die, I want to come back as a spider, so I can catch flies; pull off their wings; kick 'em in the shins and make them hobble back home.

 

[facthunter]

Watch what wasps do to spiders and you might want to change your mind. Nev

[old man emu]

I won't come back as a black spider, so WASPs won't worry me.

[spacesailor]

I love Spider,s 

If possible I would bread then, &  release them into the mangroves to eat mosquitoes. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Bats do it better, Fish eat spiders. Nev

[old man emu]

How do you bread a spider, or batter a bat, for that matter?

[facthunter]

Bats eat a large mass of insects each  day, Nev

[spacesailor]

Oops

I blame ' spell checker ' .

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

We should all be eating spider bread to save the planet, apparently. They don’t emit methane.

[old man emu]

Daylight Saving - a myth

 

Last week it was a bit too cold to start working on renovations inside until about 8:30 am. This week the clock is showing 9:30 am before it's warm enough to start. How does that save daylight?

[onetrack]

Fortunately for us on the Left coast, we have enough sensible voters here to see through the stupidity that is DS in Australia, and we've held 4 referendums here since 1975, with the proposal of adopting DS, and the proposal has been soundly defeated every time, with a sizeable majority.

But it still doesn't stop the DS true believers - one clown even got voted in last election here, on a DS platform. But funnily enough, he got voted in on preference handouts, not by people wanting DS.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/when-does-daylight-saving-time-start-in-australia-2022-october/101438666

[red750]

With all this talk about peak and off-peak power usage, one thing DS does is move the normal time for cooking the evening meal into the time before lights are required. Small maybe, but surely that's a good thing.

[facthunter]

You get extended twilight in the higher latitudes so the longer time with light can  be used for things where you have to see. Near the equator it's little effect. Nev

[Marty_d]

Horses for courses.  It's great here in Tassie, you get an hour more daylight after work, which is when you can actually use it to do something useful.

 

[old man emu]

A bit off track, but I still reckon that the time for the whole of Australia should be based on the 135 degrees east, making all time UTC +9. After all,  in the 21st Century and beyond, what is the significance of the apparent transit of the Sun from sunrise to sunset to the functioning of a 24/7 society?

[Jerry_Atrick]

I recall the surprise I had when I lived in Brissie for a while at the near constant sunset time throughout the year (at least compared to Melbourne). Of course, it was nice having sunnioer evenings in winter and for longer.

 

These days, in Blighty, I really enjoy the summers - often daylight until 10pm, and with the VFR rule of having to be on the ground 1/2 hour after sunset, makes for some relaxing after work bimbles in the air (or, did). Of course, there is an issue in winter when it is night time by about 4pm.. that sucks!

[willedoo]

Some years ago they trialed daylight saving time in Queensland, but it confused the curtains and faded the chooks.

[Marty_d]

I thought the reason they rejected daylight savings was because Joh thought the sun shone out of his arse, and he wasn't getting up an hour early for anyone.